Kaiju Character Discussion

So here I am adding Tacyldus background:btw with Flying, is there a "ceiling" to how high I can fly. Mechanically at least. I mean hypothetically at top speed I could get up to the top of the Ozone layer in less than a minute.

I updated the previous post with correction. Also submitted the sheet to the game. :)
Also, I wanted to ask about tentacle actions. How exactly do they work? Nevermind, found them in the book!

also can I just say, the more I read on this system the more I love it as a generic setting building system.

Yeah, Savage Worlds is a pretty solid and versatile system. It’s definitely one of my favorites.

There doesn’t appear to be any mention of a maximum altitude for flying creatures. I’d probably say about 30,000-40,000 feet, though you could probably fly higher for brief periods.

Out of curiosity, does this setting lean pretty heavily on combat then? Don't really see how there would be an opportunity for more roleplaying/investigative/face/etc type interaction with these creatures.

And out of curiosity how does the ranged attack work at those heights? Thinking of death from above. Probably just heavy negative modifiers.

That’s what I’m thinking. There will be some very simple investigation (in as far as a Kaiju can investigate something), but yes, it’ll most likely lean toward combat. There is still the potential for a good amount of roleplaying, but the roleplaying will probably consist of actions more than dialogue. I don’t see any of your kaiju giving a rousing speech, for instance. People are free to take the Fully Sapient ability if they’d like kaiju that are more intelligent and capable of human speech. But I think having talking kaiju would greatly change the feel of the game.

From that altitude, you wouldn’t be able to hit anything on the ground. The range increments for a kaiju ranged attack, expressed in inches, are 12/24/48/192 (short/medium/long/extreme). Remember that kaiju scale applies to all of a kaiju’s natural abilities and powers, so that’s 240/480/960/3,840 in yards/meters. Penalties for each increment are 0/-2/-4/-8.

So the farthest distance that your ranged attack can travel is a little over two miles. Still impressive, but that’s extreme range so you’d be at -8 to hit.

Yes, in a single round you could move to the edge of your long range. At two miles up, you’ll still be doing death from above. Terrestrial kaiju would have to try and hit you with ranged attacks, but they’d be at -4 to hit you.

Something I should note, making attacks at extreme range do require characters to make an Aim maneuver first. Just so people are aware. You can read about it on p. 97

That’s awesome! Great illustration! I wish that I had artistic talent in visual arts; I don’t unfortunately.

So kaiju can sometimes operate in packs called sentai (the Japanese word for "squadron", "group", or "military unit"). It’s unusual but not unheard of. I’m assuming your characters have formed a sentai of kaiju, and so they all know each other. That’s probably the easiest thing to do. The KTF has no real control over the kaiju. When kaiju and KTF Mecha have fought together in the past, it wasn’t a formal agreement. It’s more like they just happened to be fighting to same foe, and the kaiju didn’t view humans as a threat at that moment. In battles in which they share a common adversary, the KTF usually just stays out of the kaiju’s way and provides support.

The setting has a place called "Monster Island" where a large number of the world’s kaiju make their home. The island is just a plot device to explain why all of your characters might be together. But if some players want their kaiju living outside of the island, that’s fine, too.

The other option is that you are all drawn together at a certain location due to circumstances and end up fighting together.

I am a okay with Monster Island. If everyone else

Thank you! :)

I already mentioned Monster Island as a current location of my character, so I'm fully in favor of starting here!
(Although you gotta wonder how a squid, a pangolin and a pterodactyl formed a pack. XD)

My guess is book club, even Kaiju have book clubs

lol
Maybe they walked into a bar? Squashing it.

(Monster Island sounds good)

One possibility is that Monster Island is home to several roving sentai; almost like prison gangs of giant monsters. To survive, your kaiju banded together for strength in numbers. Your instincts and intellects drove you to form a pack for mutual protection against rival sentai. It’s one option; just an idea.

Also, you’ve got all the environments covered, which is nice: water, air, underground.

Oh, I like that idea. Like a Kaiju prison break, trying to escape from Alcatraz to the outside world.